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Out of these:

 

 

 

Campbell, Brother to a Dragonfly

 

Stoker, Dracula

 

Flaubert, Madame Bovary

 

Mason, In Country

 

[bleep]ens, Oliver Twist

 

Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

 

Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

 

Brown, Fay

 

Percy, The Last Gentleman

 

Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

 

Faulkner, The Bear

 

Steinbeck, East of Eden

 

Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma

 

Conroy, Prince of Tides

 

Irving, Cider House Rules

 

Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 

McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

 

Twain, Huckleberry Finn

 

Achebe, Arrow of God

 

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

 

Plimpton, Paper Lion

 

Dumas, The Three Musketeers

 

Herbert, Dune

 

Heaney, Beowulf + Gardner, Grendel

 

McEwan, Atonement

 

Morrison, Beloved

 

Wright, Native Son

 

Toole, Confederacy of Dunces

 

Hedges, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape

 

Ballard, Empire of the Sun

 

 

 

Schafer, Shane

 

Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

 

Hosseini, The Kite Runner

 

McMurtry, The Last Picture Show

 

Ellis, Less Than Zero

 

Sundaresan, The Twentieth Wife

 

Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

 

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

 

Wharton, Age of Innocence

 

Chappell, I Am One of You Forever

 

Berry, Memory of Old Jack

 

Morrison, My Dog Skip

 

Tolkien, Lord of the Ring Series

 

Allende, Eva Luna, Zorro

 

Hellman ,The Little Foxes

 

Amado, Tent of Miracles

 

Adams, Watership Down

 

Updike, Rabbit Run

 

Chopin, The Awakening

 

Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

 

Knowles, A Separate Peace

 

Potok, My Name is Asher Lev

 

Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

 

Le Guin, Wizard of Earthsea

 

Malamud, The Natural

 

Martel , Life of Pi

 

Franklin, Autobiography

 

Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave

 

Lewis, Coach

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Danielewski, House of Leaves

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wow ive only read two of those (Huck Finn and Beowolf)

 

 

 

In fairness I have to advise Beowolf since its the only one I have read, and it seems like you are asking this for some type of project

 

 

 

I have heard good things about slaughterhouse 5 though so make of that what you will.

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Beowulf is pretty good. We read it this year.

 

Though my favorite (on that list, and of all books I've read) is The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King.

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All Quiet on the Western Front was an amazing book.

 

 

 

Agreed. We read part of that in History last year before we got the [wagon] teacher. It was the part were the guy hides in the foxhole and stabs the guy that falls in, then promises to help his family out.

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen King, The Green Mile

 

Stephen King, The Dark Half

 

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

 

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The only thing I've read from that whole list is Anne of Green Gables. It was pretty good, but that was ages ago that I last read it. I've tried to read the LoTR series, but for whatever reason I just can't. :P I never get past this one certain point in it. I LOVE reading though. I have a LOT of books, just none that are on there. :P Wheel of Time, Twilight saga, the Inheritance sage (Eragon, etc.), Silverwing/Sunwing/Firewing/Darkwing... I realise this may be off topic but I really like talking about my books. :XD:

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:| I don't think I've read any of those. But I did issue out the Kite Runner today :)

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The Three Musketeers is the only one I enjoyed throughout the entirety of the book of all you mentioned.

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MY dad tried to get me to read watership down a few years ago (probably 2-4)

 

Never really got into it, and I dont really remember much about it.

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J.D. Sallinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" is the best book I've read thus far. I've read it five times now and each time I've taken something different out of it.

 

 

 

I'm hoping Sallinger is writing a whole bunch of novels/personal things to be read after his death, or just before.

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I give my vote to Steinbeck - East of Eden

 

Though all of these are pretty great. It looks like a list straight from an AP Lit. class. What is it for?

 

 

 

I don't claim to have read all of them, but to give you a bit of perspective on my opinion, I've read:

 

Steinbeck, East of Eden; Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Dumas, The Three Musketeers; Knowles, A Separate Peace; Martel, Life of Pi;

 

 

 

I've also heard reports from a number of people who've read many others on the list, and all of the books on this list are pretty high quality literature.

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East of Eden by Steinbeck gets my vote.

 

Dune is also an amazing book.

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Someone seems to have been sent home from class with a reading list :D.

 

 

 

Most of these are classics, can't really go very wrong with any of them. (Although, Morrison's Beloved: UGH).

 

 

 

Some of the ones I liked: (in bold those I'd happily force-feed on anyone)

 

 

 

Flaubert, Madame Bovary

 

Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma

 

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

 

McEwan, Atonement

 

 

 

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

 

Adams, Watership Down

 

Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

 

Tolkien, Lord of the Ring Series

 

 

 

[bleep]ens, Stoker, Hardy and Joyce are also worth your while and quite possibly a bit more manly than the books from the above selection ::'.

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